3 warnings in Spain train wreck unheeded

The driver of a Spanish train that derailed, killing 79 people, ignored three warnings to reduce speed in the two minutes before the train hurtled off the tracks on a treacherous curve, investigators said Friday.

A court statement said the driver was talking on the phone when he received the first automatic warning in his cabin of a sharply reduced speed zone ahead. Police forensic tests on the train's black box data recorders showed the last warning came just 250 yards before a dangerous curve where the accident occurred last week in Santiago de Compostela, Spain.

At that point, the train was going 121 mph when the speed limit was set at 50 mph.

U.S. diplomat leaves after crash

An American diplomat who police say was speeding crossed the center line in his SUV and rammed into a full minibus, killing a father of three whose widow is six months pregnant, officials said Friday.

U.S. Embassy officials in Nairobi rushed the American and his family out of Kenya the next day.

Probe of killings focuses on rebels

U.N. experts are investigating allegations that rebels killed dozens of Syrian soldiers in a village near Aleppo after they captured it from government troops, an incident that could amount to a war crime, the world body's human rights chief said Friday.

Lawyer: Snowden ‘in a safe place'

National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden has a place to live in Russia after being granted temporary asylum, but he still hasn't decided what he wants to do next, his lawyer said Friday.

Kremlin watchers believe his moves are likely being closely controlled by Russian intelligence. Snowden “is in a safe place,” the lawyer said.

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